Dear mohdy,
I am not one of your classmates and am 30 years older than you, but I am touched that you have such warm feelings toward Oklahoma City. My uncle, aunt, cousin, brother-in-law and...
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Dear mohdy,
I am not one of your classmates and am 30 years older than you, but I am touched that you have such warm feelings toward Oklahoma City. My uncle, aunt, cousin, brother-in-law and...
What is Coits?
Thank you for looking up these pictures, but I thought, 'No, it couldn't have been that one. That looks nothing like it.' It turns out the one I meant was at 113 North Walker. I just looked it up...
I live out of state, and didn't know about this. I went to kindergarten at Lee. I had a mean teacher, very strict, not at all what a kid needs as an introduction to school. I think she hated kids...
My parents met at Capital Hilll High School in 1937. She was in the 9th grade and he was in the 10th. They got married a week after she graduated, June 1941. I think she still goes to the...
I never was in a fight, but as a student at Shields Heights Elementary, I recall there was a boy who was a dreadful bully and picked fights with everyone. When he threatened me (a girl) my mother...
It was so much easier to remember the numbers when they had a name prefix. My mother now lives in the 63.... prefix area, but I still think "MElrose... when I dial it.
We had our local Capital Hill theaters, the Yale and the Redskin, and went there often, but the Big Deal was to go to the big theaters downtown. One dressed up for that. The interiors were like a...
I remember the son of family friends coming to our house when he returned from duty in Korea. He was in his early 20's. He told us about how the North Korean POW's would keep discipline among...
I lived in Oklahoma City the first 10 years of my life, always in the capital hill area, but at four different addresses. My grandmothers had lived there since the 1920's and 1930's, always in...
When people in my family wanted to have a special restaurant outing, this is where we would go. It was right downtown, I think across from the courthouse. It had convenient parking, delicious food,...
I never went to one in OKC, but used to be devoted to the one in Tulsa back when it first opened. It was good food, and such a charming and lovely place, with so much variety of rooms. But the last...
I only remember going once. My parents and an aunt and uncle took me as a child. It was a lovely swimming place,but very far from where we lived in SE OKC, back when there were no IS bypasses. It...
I wish I had a dollar for every time my husband or I have said, "If only we could go to a TG&Y, we could find it there!"